MATTHEW OF WESTMINSTER
The flowers of history, especially such as relate to the affairs of Britain. Vol. I. B.C. 4004 to A.D. 1066.
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BOOK V.
THE FIFTH AGE OF THE WORLD
BEGINS IN THE NINTH TEAK OF NEBUCHADNEZZAR, KINO
OF BABYLON, WHO LIVED AFTER THIS OVERTHROW
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS.
B.C. 696—4.
ACCOUNT OF BABYLON—KINGS OF BABYLON—JERUSALEM IS
RESTORED—LIST OF THE KINGS OF BRITAIN—KINGS OF
PERSIA—BRENNUS, KING OF ENGLAND, MAKES WAR UPON
ROME — ALEXANDER SUBDUES PERSIA—DIVISION OF THE
KINGDOM OF ALEXANDER—ANTI0CHU8—PTOLEMY—THE
PUNIC WARS—OTHER WARS OF THE ROMANS—THE HIGH
PRIESTS OF THE JEWS, ONIAS, JASON, ETC.—WARS OF
THE MACCASEES—CASSAR INVADES BRITAIN, IS DEFEATED
BY CASSIBELANUS—AUGUSTUS CJESAR —HEROD—JOSEPH
IS ESPOUSED BY MARY.
CH. I. — Babylon, ita situation, Sçc.—Crcesus—Belshazzar— Cyrus—The rebuilding of the temple of Jerusalem—The restoration of Babylon—The successors of Cyrus—Nehemiah.
AFTER the destruction of the temple of the Lord, in the manner already spoken of, and the carrying away at the same time of the people of, the Jews to Babylon, they remained there seventy years, at the end of which, Jeremiah had prophesied that the captivity of the Jews would be terminated. During which time there reigned over Persia, after Nebuchadnezzar, four kings, to wit, Evilmerodach, Labosardach, Egesar, and Belehazzar, nor had the* Jews any hope of escaping from Babylon, which at that time was the strongest and richest, and highest of all cities. In its circuit was four hundred and eighty-six furlongs. And it was built in a plain, and in the likeness of a camp, arranged with walls of equal length, so as

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